| Description |
xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. Children's literature: new approaches/Karín Lesnik-Oberstein -- Author and authorship. Effigies of Effie: on Kipling's biographies/Sue Walsh -- Victorian childhood. Reading beyond the 'innocent title': home thoughts and home scenes/Christine Sutphin -- Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as virtual reality/J. Hillis Miller -- The implied reader. Response and responsibility: theories of the implied reader in children's literature criticism/Neil Cocks -- Children's literature, science and faith: The Water-Babies/Lila Marz Harper -- The child, the family, the relationship. Familiar stories: family, storytelling, and ideology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials/Stephen Thomson -- Reading intertextuality: the natural and the legitimate: intertextuality in 'Harry Potter'/Daniela Caselli -- National identity. Where the wild, strange and exotic things are: in search of the Caribbean in contemporary children's literature/Jacqueline Lazú -- Landscapes: 'going foreign' in Arthur Ransome's Peter Duck/Sarah Spooner |
| Summary |
This is the first volume on children's literature criticism designed specifically for graduate students and researchers, as well as advanced undergraduates. It reviews and analyses the major theoretical questions and issues in the field, but then goes on to propose entirely new approaches to key topics such as authorship, the 'reader in the text', readership, history, ideology, intertextuality, national identity and childhood. Informed by the most recent debates on theoretical problems, this volume is ideal not just for students researching in children's literature itself, but for all researchers seeking to understand the implications of theoretical positions and assumptions for literature and cultural studies in general. The collection features a line-up of eminent contributors, including J Hillis Miller, Jacqueline Lazu, Stephen Thomson and Christine Sutphin, and discusses a wide range of texts, from Harry Potter and the works of Philip Pullman, to Arthur Ransom's Swallows and Amazons and the Swiss Family Robinson |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín.
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Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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| LC no. |
2004045802 |
| ISBN |
140391737X cloth |
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1403917388 paper |
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